“Local authorities” in Reading called for a permanent police
presence in the Citadel Intermediate High School after a 14-year-old student
threatened a dozen students with a loaded handgun in a ninth-grade classroom
Nov. 20, according to the Reading Eagle.
"If police were assigned full time, this event would
have been prevented," said Bryan Boughter, Berks County assistant district
attorney.
Reporter Holly Herman didn’t follow up and ask how even 10
police patrolling the school could keep a student from sneaking a gun into the
school.
District Attorney John T. Adams said that the school
district should have full-time officers at the Citadel and Reading High School.
Rebecca Acosta, Reading School Board president, said the school
district does not have enough money police officers, which cost $100,000 per
cop per year.
The nice round number reminded me for some reason of the
$200,000 the board paid to a California company for a strategic plan. It was so
important, a special meeting was called for the vote – the only item on the
agenda. The district's director of secondary education at the time had worked
for the company. The report was full of blather and pages of stuff we already
knew, but short on specific recommendations.
Has anybody heard about it since?
It could have paid for two police officers.
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